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336 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES (5) To call villagers in the collection season when necessary. (6) To do a round at night and help the police in patrolling on night duty in the arrest of criminals, in the detection of crime and at the time of inquests on accidental deaths. (7) To assist in the prevention of the commission of thefts and other offences. (8) To report the movements of criminal tribes and notorious criminals to the Police Patil and about criminal offences and accidents, etc. (9) To carry the daftar of village officers. (10) To assist the village officers at the time of the recovery of land revenue. (11) To accompnay the village officers at the time of the crop inspection. (12) To Keep guard over persons in the custody of Police Patil. Duties of Chaugulas and Naikwadis (1) To carry the daftar of the village officers. (2) To assist the village officers at the time of the recovery of the land revenue. (3) To accompany the village officers at the time of the crop inspection. (4) To keep the village chavdi clean and light the lamps there. Duties of Jaglyas (1) To keep watch at night, to find out all arrival and departures, to observe strangers and to report all suspicious persons to the Police Patil. (2) To trace a thief by footsteps. (3) To assist the police in the investigation of crime. (4) To accompany remittances from the village to the taluka. (5) To accompany village officers at the time of crop and boundary marks inspection.

337REPRESENTATION..........MANGS ETC. Duties of Talbadas and Kolis (1) To clean the chavdi by sweeping and cowdunging it and to light lamp in it. (2) To assist village officers in the work of crop and boundary marks inspection. (3) To make bandobast when Government officers camp in the village so far as the public duties of these officers require it. Duties of Samadis or Walikars, Talwars, Holkars and Ugranis (1) To help the village officers in the collection of Government revenue. (2) To help the Police Patil in serving summonses, etc., issued by magistrates and the police. (3) To keep watch over the village records and public money, or “Muddemal” in cases when there is occasion for it to be done at the village. (4) To excort the remittances of treasury or money to the taluka or mahal sub-treasury. (5) To carry the post of the village and touring officers from place to place where there are no other facilities for its transport. (6) To do night patroling in the village. (7) To keep guard over prisoners in the Police Patil’s custody. (8) To show the way to touring officers from village to village where there are no roads, at walking pace, to the minimum extent necessary to give adequate directions. (9) To report information about births and deaths to the Police Patil. (10) To call villagers to the village chavdi when they are required for Government work. (11) To accompany village officers and other officers on field inspections. (12) To assist vaccinators in collecting children for vaccination.

338 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES (13) To carry village records from village to taluka and vice versa. (14) To assist village officers when on tour in the village in the performance of their public duties. (15) To keep the village chavdis clean. (16) To set up camp offices in the village. Duties of Barkers (1) To keep the village chavdi clean. zz

28 I SHALL BE MORE DEADLY AGAINST THE BRITISHERS THAN HINDUS IF…… The Viceroy constituted the Defence Council of India on 27th July 1941. There were Eight Indians out of total thirteen members. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was one of the members of the Council. He expressed his views about the evil policies of Britishers—Editors. “I have directed for these many years bitter and virulent attacks on Hindu Society and its numerous evils, but I can assure you that I shall direct attack a hundred-fold more bitter, more virulent, more deadly against the Britishers than I have done against Hindus if my loyalty is going to be exploited for crushing my own people and taking away from them last dry bone from which they draw their sustenance.” (Ten Years To Freedom, Pp. 58-59) 1. zz 1: Quoted, Khairmode, Vol. 9, P. 130.

29 EXCLUSION OF DEPRESSED CLASSES FROM VICEROY’S COUNCIL AS AN OUTRAGE AND BREACH OF FAITH Bombay, Thursday* “Depressed Classes regard their exclusion from the Viceroy’s reconstituted Council as an outrage and breach of faith,” says Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Leader of the Depressed Classes in a cable addressed to the Secretary to State for India, Mr. L. S. Amery. The cable adds: “Your flouting of 60 million Depressed Classes altogether and giving 43 per cent representation to Muslims, which is nearly equal to that of Hindus, is astounding. Government appears to have been mortgaged to some communities only. After solemnly recognising the Depressed Classes as an important distinct element in the Indian national life after insisting that their consent to constitutional changes is essential after exploiting their co-operation in war, their exclusion from the Council bespeaks of want of good faith on your part. Protesting in the interest and name of the Depressed Classes, personally I have never asked, depended or had support from the British. I can do without it in future. You are absolutely free in your choice. I want justice for the Depressed Classes. I warn you that the Depressed Classes are not prepared to surrender their right to representation in the Council. I strongly urge you to recognise the same. Adding one member to the Council cannot hurt.” zz The Free Press Journal: dated 1st August 1941. *31st July 1941.